Zany Brainy

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Zany Brainy

While shopping recently in Rockville, Maryland, I stumbled across the store for wired kids of the '90s: Zany Brainy. No Barney songs here; the wacky tune "We are the dinosaurs/ Bigger than a grocery store" by Trout Fishing in America was playing as I walked in.

On my visit, the joint was jumping with kids - in the play area (where you try stuff out before buying it), in the software demo station (stocked with computers and videogame players), and in the big-screen-TV theater.

I happen to be a mechanical toy junkie. And Zany Brainy has a nice selection of Capsela toys and robot assembly kits. Luckily, I left my credit card at home, saving the mortgage payment from an almost uncontrollable impulse to fill my home with plastic battery-operated robots.